Nominations of Janet Louise Yellen and Julie D. Belaga: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Third Congress Second Session (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Nominations of Janet Louise Yellen and Julie D. Belaga: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs United States Senate One Hundred Third Congress Second SessionThe Committee met at 10:14 a.m. in room 538, of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Chairman of the Committee) presiding.Opening Statement of Chairman Donald W. Riegle, Jr.The Chairman. The Committee will come to order. Let me welcome all those in attendance this morning and apologize for a little delay in our starting time.I am going to invite our colleague, Senator Lieberman, to come on up to the table. I know he wants to make an introduction of one of our two nominees this morning. We are delighted to have you. I know Senator Dodd will also want to introduce one of our nominees at a later time, and so, Senator Lieberman, we are pleased to have you here and we would like to hear from you now.Opening Statement of Joseph I. LiebermanA U.S. Senator from the State of ConnecticutSenator Lieberman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Members of the Committee. I appreciate your courtesy to me. Senator Dodd will be here in a while. I am pleased to be able to come by at this moment to introduce and speak in support of President Clinton's nomination of Julie Belaga, of Connecticut, to be a Director of the Exim Bank.Mr. Chairman, it amazes me how long Julie and I have known each other since we are both obviously so young and vibrant, but it has been a long time since we served in the State legislature together, since we worked together when Julie was a Regional Administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.